Giclee

What is a Giclee

The term giclée originated in 1991 with Jack Duganne who coined the term to refer to fine art prints created with digital output. It was intended to be a word, which would be added to the lexicon of printmaking terms in the vocabulary of fine art printmaking. The main intention of the word giclée was to distinguish “fine art prints” from those created for non-art or commercial purposes.

An ink jet print on watercolor paper or canvas is known as a Giclee. Giclee (zheeclay) is a French term; in this case meaning "spray of ink".

What is the Finer Image Editions Process?

The cornerstone of the Giclee process is the Roland HiFi inkjet printer for the fine art precision printing. The printer uses a continuous tone technology in which infinitely small pixels of color -are capable of rendering an amazingly smooth and consistent image. The substrate to be printed on is affixed to a drum and as the drum rotates at a high speed, individual droplets of colors are sprayed on to the surface at a rate of 4-5 million droplets per second. Once completed, a 34' x 46" image is comprised of almost 20 billion droplets of ink, each one measuring no more than 15 microns in diameter. Using pigmented inks with archival rating of 120 years plus and printing at 1440DPI, this is the highest quality digital printing available. Then the print is completed by applying UV light retardant and light stabilizer post-coatings. The results are museum-quality fine art prints.

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